On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
> > If I remember correctly, the email in question only contained the html. I
> > deleted it and yes I use pine. When you've got hundreds of emails to go
> > through, you don't have the time to save to a tmpfile and browse with
> > netscape or scan with a text editor.
>
> I've noticed if while in Pine you reply and quote the contents you can
> read it. You still have to plow through the HTML which isn't pleasant for
> a long note, but not too bad for a short one.
>
> I've always wondered what it would take to link Pine with Lynx.
Here's a tip from Cees Hek that helped me out:
Cees Hek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Just an off-topic aside here. You can set up pine to use lynx as an HTML
> viewer. Then you just use View Attachment in pine, and voila. I'm sure
> most of you that use pine have already figured this out after having been
> annoyed by all the HTML email out there, but for those who haven't...
>
>
> Just create a .mailcap in your home directory, and place this line in it
> (you could place it in the system mailcap instead if you have permission)
>
> Text/HTML; lynx -dump -force_html %s; copiousoutput
>
> Then tell pine to look for this new mailcap. In your .pinerc, edit the
> mailcap-search-path to point to the new mailcap file (You can also edit
> this in pine using Setup from the Main Menu.)
>
> mailcap-search-path=/etc/mailcap:~/.mailcap
Hope this helps!
Mike
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